It is the central thesis of this paper that imperialism retarded the development of human resources in lagging …

Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary … development and discuss possible channels of such causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling …

This paper documents that the Rise of (Western) Europe between 1500 and 1850 is largely accounted for by the growth of …. Atlantic trade and colonialism affected Europe both directly, and indirectly by inducing institutional changes. In particular …, thus enabling new merchants in these countries to benefit from Atlantic trade. Therefore, the Rise of Europe was largely …

development of countries around the globe. However, why some countries were colonized early, some late, and others not at all, and …-1500 development, (b) proximity to the colonizing powers, (c) disease environment, and (d) latitude. In the second part, we …